Supermicro SSG-2027B-CIB020H Leaflet

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Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 on Supermicro 
High-Performance 2U Cluster-in-a-Box
Supermicro’s 2U SuperStorage Bridge Bay running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard is a fully redundant, 
fault-tolerant Cluster-in-a-Box designed to provide mission-critical, low latency storage for enterprise applications.
SSG-2027B-CIB020H  
AT-A-GLANCE
•  Two hot-pluggable systems 
(nodes) in a 2U form factor
•  2 Intel Xeon E5-2403 v2 1.8GHz 
processors per node
•  20TB raw capacity with SSD and 
HDD storage tiers
•  Windows Storage Server 2012 
R2 Standard preinstalled on 
internal SATA DOM (one DOM 
per node)
•  64GB system memory per node 
(user expandable)
•  3x PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots per node
•  6 Gbps LSI 2308 SAS2 controller 
per node (daughtercard on 
motherboard)
•  One hot-plug JBOD expansion 
port per node
Mission-Critical, Enterprise Storage at an Affordable Price
Part of Supermicro’s SuperStorage Bridge Bay (Super SBB) line, the SSG-2027B-CIB020H is designed 
to provide reliable, continuous availability storage with high transactional performance for SMB 
and remote office environments. Key features and benefits include:
•  Hot-swappable modules for all active components
 
– including storage controllers, power 
supplies, and disk drives. 
•  Ready-to-deploy
 
– delivered with Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard preinstalled 
and Failover Clustering preconfigured across the two compute nodes.
•  High-performance, tiered storage 
 
– incorporates 4x SAS SSD drives for lightning-fast 
performance by using the new Storage Tiers feature in Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 
Standard. 
•  Native integration with Active Directory 
 
– enabling fast and easy deployment in existing 
Windows Server-based IT infrastructures.
•  Easily expanded
 – built-in expansion ports make it easy to connect up to four Super SBB 
937R-E2JB JBODs, each of which supports 16x 3.5” SAS2/SATA3 drives.
With the SSG-2027B-CIB020H running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard, you’ll have 
access to the latest storage innovations from Microsoft, including:
•  Data Deduplication and Storage Spaces
 
– for maximizing and scaling your storage capacity.
•  Storage Tiers, SMB Direct, SMB Multichannel, and NIC Teaming
 
– for maximum performance.
•  Enhancements to Failover Clustering and Hyper-V
 
– for improved reliability.
For more information on all the capabilities built into Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard, 
visit
 
www.microsoft.com/windowsserver
Typical Deployment Model
The following diagram shows a typical deployment model for the SSG-2027B-CIB020H running 
Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard in a datacenter environment.
Windows 
clients
Linux & Mac 
clients
Application 
servers
SSG-2027B-CIB020H running Windows 
Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard
10G SFP+ network switch 
(SSE-X3348S / SSE-X3348SR) 
Up to 4x 937R-E2JB JBOD arrays 
(optional, for storage expansion)